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THE. BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEV.Fslettbr Vol. 7) No. 1 THE. BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEV.fSLETTBR Vol. 7) No. 1, Whole No. 62 January 1971 MIXTURES - Forthcoming 8 p.m. recitals on the three-manual Fisk organ in the First Congrega- tional Church, lftinchester, Mass., are: John Ogasapian, March 21; John Skelton, April 25; and Bruce Bennet, June 20. st. George's Episcopal Church, New York, which houses a huge Moller organ, bills itself as ttThe church with the pipe organ Albert Schweitzer helped design." Thomas M1rrray, the well-traveled B .0 .C. member from California, will play two recitals in our region: Christ Episcopal Church, Westerly, R.I., Sunday evening, 1rarch 7; and the Unitarian Church, Newburyport, Mass., 3:30p.m., March 21. < A splendid .56-page booklet with many illustrations, A Snetzler Chamber Organ of 1761, is available for 70 cents from the Superintendent of Documents, u. s:-aovern­ ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20L~02. Written by John Fesperman and pub­ lished by the Smithsonian Institution in 1970, the monograph describes the history of the restored six-rank organ at the Institution and provides data on several other Snetzler organs shipped to the Amer.ican colonies. The First United Baptist Church, Lowell, Mass., has contracted with C. B. Fisk for a large "nown two-manual organ, which will replace the altered three-manual 1901 electric-action Jesse Woodberry described in the Newsletter for August_, 1970. B .0 .C. member Carroll Craft worked tirelessly for the suceessful merging of two E. & G. G. Hook organs built for churches in New Haven, Conn. The Lowell instrument will in­ clude the nareek Revival11 case front of Opus 180, an 1855 three-manual built for the Centre Church, and most of Opus 195, built in 1856 for the Church Street Church, and salvaged from another church last year. On January 24, Ed Roadway llgave a recital and hymn singn at Calvary Baptist Church in Springfield, Vt. The 2-16 J. G. Marklove organ suffers from recently-introduced acoustics of the worst sort, but the program was highlighted by Dick Boutwell 1 s singing of the tenor arrangements of Hendelssolm 1 s "Hear my prayer11 and 11 0, for the wings of a dove, 11 both guaranteed to have little old ladies purring in the pews. John Brombaugh & Company of Middletown, Ohio, a tracker-building firm in business about three years, have an impressive list of contracts. Completed are church organs in Ithaca, N.Y., and Lorain, o., as well as two 2-stop 27-note portatives for Dean Nuernberger of Oberlin, 0., and a similar instrument for LaNoue Davenport of Stony Hill, N.Y. A 1-3 residence organ is being built for Martin Littmann of Middletown, 0., and under construction are t~o two-manual church organs for St. James Episcopal Church, Columbus, o., and Pilgrim Congregational Church, Toledo, o. Mr. Brombaugh writes: "There are organs contracted for Ashland Avenue Baptist, Toledo, Ohio, prac­ tice organs for Oberlin Conservatory, and Mrs. Stephen Folts, Ames, Iowa, as well as two special instruments for the New York Pro Music a." Robert Abkes of Waldorf College, Forest City, Iowa, is looking for information on Edmund Giesecke of Evansville, Indiana, who at least seventy years ago built a 2-10 tracker installed in the Christian Reformed Church, Austinville, Iowa, about 1930. Cannarsa Organs, Inc., of Hollidaysburg, Pa., are to rebuild Hook & Hastings Opus 2210, built in 1909 for St. Andrew 1 s Episcopal Church, Clearfield, Pa. The present eight ranks will be enlarged with the adding of a 2 1 and }fixture II in space left by the builders. Mr. Virgil N. Cannarsa appreciates old tracker organs and reports that he has worked on the following organs in recent years: St. Joseph's Ch1ll'ch, Renovo, Pa., 2-20 A. B. Felgemaker; St. Francis Xavier Church, Cresson, Pa., 2-12 George Jardine & Son, Opus 1147; Bethlehem LThtheran Church, Scenery Hill (Glyde), Pa., 1908 2-9 A. B. Felgemaker; and Sacred Heart Church, Portage, Pa., 2-16 Hook & Hastings. 'l'1le Newsletter is published monthly by The Boston Organ Club, 33 Bowdoin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114. Editor: E. A. Boadway, 335 Court Street, Keene, New Hampshire, 03431. Meetings are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month. Membership: $5.00 per year. Treasurer: Alan M. Laufman, Mountain Road, Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York, 12520. January 1971 Page 2 FIRST BAPTIST CI-IURCH, Park Street, rJEIFPORT, NEW HAHPSHIRE. Hook & Hastings Co •. , Boston, Mass., Opus 1776, 1897. GREAT: Slf'7.~LL: PEDAL: Open Diapason 8r 61 Salicional sr 61 Bourdon 16 1 27 Dulciana Sr 61 Stopped Diapason 81 61 Melodia 8r 61 Flute Harmonique 4' 61 Couplers: Octave 4r 61 Oboe 8T 61 Sw. to: G!'. Unison Tremolo Sw. to Gr. Super 8Y§. Great to Pedal Blowers Signal Swell to Pedal Despite the prosaic stoplist, this organ is an excellent instrument. The organ is well-voiced and the acoustics of the room are superb--surely the best combination of organ and acoustical environment in New Hampshire is at First Baptist Church, New­ port. · The rambling frame IIGothicll building on the town common was erected in 1870 and it has not been greatly altered in a century. In the attic are the remains (the chest, some action and much of .the elegant mahogany case) of d c.l824 1-5 Lemuel Hedge organ. It apparently stood in a rear gallery until the arrival of the. Hook & Hast­ ings, the firm's last 1897 installation. The latter organ is in a large recess behind the pulpit platform. The choir area between is fronted with heavy brass railings and yards of old maroon velvet. On December 17, 1897, the Argus & Specta- tor said --- - ---- ---The new *rl650 pipe organ, which has been pu:tchased of the Hook & Hastings Co., Boston~ was shipped to town TU'ssday. Mr. Benz, of this company, is now setting it up. It will take him about eight days .to perform the job. r On December 24, the same paper described at length the renovated sanctuary and a simple woodcut pictured the organ case: •.. The gallery for the singers, which hitherto has been located .at the south end, has been removed, leaving the dimensions of the room about 42 by 65 feet .•.• The organ ..•will be turned by waterpower, and presided over by lvJrs. J:.J. S. Tandy. The oak paneling aroUY!.d the attached console supports three flats of decorated Open Diapason and Dulciana basses arranged 7/13/7 without visible supporting wood­ work. At each end is a small five-pipe flat framed in the Gothic style, that on the left containing a few Open Diapasons in the tenor octave; the other contains dummy pipes. The console has overhanging manuals, a flat Pedal clavier; round-shanked oblique knobs (ebony wood for tho speaking stops) lettered in Italics; and a wood shoe-shaped Swell pedal at the far right. As is typical of the builders during the 1890's, the distance from the Pedal naturals to the Great keys is a bit too much. 'I'he manual pipevvork is c.:rranged chromatically and the Swell is behind the Great. The box has vertical shutte:r/s and an acc~ss panel on the treble end. The Pedal rank is at the rear, a bit too close to the Swell box, and beneath the single ventil chest are metal rollers because the largest piPes are at the ends. The two feeders are present and work well; the bellows handle is in the chamber near the single wind trunk that feeds both manual chests.. The organ is quite clean, has received ade- quate maintenance, and the action is a pleasure to play upon. The Open Diapason is on the chest from G# 0 and is of spotted metal; the Dulciana is of spotted metal and 12 zinc basses are in the case front; the ~l[elodia is of open wood with screwed caps from F0 ; the Octave has 5 zinc basses, is of spotted metal, and ~.s slot ted to C1. The Salicional is of spotted metal, has beards for three octaves, and the 12 zinc basses are stopped pipes; the StopPed Diapason has sc:r-ewed caps and 12 open metal trebles; the Flute Harmonique has 5 zinc basses and is har­ monic from c1; the Oboe has mitered basses, spotted metal bells on zinc resonators and 12 flue trebles. All of' the metal flue ranks had coned trebles which are now January 1971 Page 3 fitted with slide tuners. The two-stop chorus is elegant, the strings are real~ quite pleasant and useful, the flutes are good examples of their type, the Oboe is bold and even a bit "brassy, II a.nd the Bourdon fits well under anything. There are no divided or short-compass stops1 The Pastor, Rev. Richard A. Wallace, an anti­ quarian who lives next to the church, is more than cordial when visitors arrive. Samuel s. Hamill {1830-1904), published a small 47-page book short~ after March, 1867. While primarily advertising, the volume does give seven pages of organ his­ tory, twenty-two pages of "sche~ules" {specifications of Hamill organs, many of which were carried in stock), and a five-page description of the Walcker organ in the ]1usic Hall, Boston. The book closes with six pages of testimonials, indicating that during the first eight years of business, Mr. Hamill had built organs for the North Street M. E. Church, Auburn, N.Y.; several for churches in Cuba; a Protestant church in Auburn, Haine {1866); the Presbyterian Church, Little Falls, N.Y.; St. Paul 1 s Episcopal Church, Wickford, R.I.
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